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Old 26-12-2011, 02:30
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What IS The Lowest Point Of The Holy Bible?

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But it's a cracking tune, and in no way deserves to be remembered as the low point of The Holy Bible (a title I'd give to PCP).
I feel we need a thread to get to the bottom of just what is the low point of The Holy Bible. It was PCP that really got me into the band in the first place.
I'd go for Mausoleum or Of Walking Abortion.
And now come the people going "But 'Of Walking Abortion' is fantastic!"
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EDIT: No poll sadly, THB has got more than 10 tracks. Pity, that could have settled it there and then.
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Old 26-12-2011, 02:33
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What do you mean by low point? worst song? Isn't that something that's been done to death? Or do you mean richey's lowest point?
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Old 26-12-2011, 02:45
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Isn't this a bit like asking "what's the low point about getting loads of free ice cream that magically has no calories, but still tastes exactly as good as normal ice cream?" Or something like that.

Anyway, I'd go for This Is Yesterday. It's the one song from the album I've never made any attempt to learn on guitar, although that might be more to do with the lack of agreement amongst tabbers as to whether it's drop D tuning or not, etc. But it's still an awesome song - I just find myself skipping it occasionally because after Faster I want to get straight into DITS.
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Old 26-12-2011, 03:32
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If you made a poll, you could just omit Faster, Yes, and Archives of Pain or Die in the Summertime as it seems everyone loves those.

PCP is my least favourite track of of it. It's fun at times, at times it's just too caustic musically. The chorus of Of Walking Abortion brings it close for me.

But as has been sad, it's not really possible to name a bad track on THB, there are just songs that aren't as mind-shatteringly amazing as others.
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Old 26-12-2011, 04:07
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YES seems to me like to much... that would be my choice(unless if it were an instrumental).
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Old 26-12-2011, 07:59
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The low point for me is when its over.
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Old 26-12-2011, 08:35
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I'm going controversial and saying Faster. My heart still says it's a great song but for one reason or another it's the only one that's diminished over time for me. It's one of the few songs (out of everything I've heard, not just in THB) for me that have genuinely become less exciting through hearing it so much, and the maniac aggression that it used to charm with feels really tame now. I understand why it's an iconic song for them but it just doesn't do as much for me as everything else on the album does.
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Old 26-12-2011, 10:10
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Revol and that Too Cold Here isn't on it
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Old 26-12-2011, 11:05
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Reluctantly, Mausoleum. But only because everything else is fucking brilliant and that's only brilliant.
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Old 26-12-2011, 11:51
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Revol and that Too Cold Here isn't on it
Agree on the Too cold here part. Love that song. A song I don't love however, is The intense humming of evil. I can't listen to it. Wouldn't call it the "low point" of THB, but it's the one song I always skip.
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Old 26-12-2011, 11:52
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Too Cold Here wouldn't work at all within the context of the rest of the album.
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Old 26-12-2011, 11:53
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Reluctantly, Mausoleum. But only because everything else is fucking brilliant and that's only brilliant.
I half agree with you. I never really liked the song until one day I was playing along with the album and the main riff is as cool as fuck to bash out. So simple and yet so badass
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Old 26-12-2011, 11:58
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I half agree with you. I never really liked the song until one day I was playing along with the album and the main riff is as cool as fuck to bash out. So simple and yet so badass
I'll probably never be able to play it, got two left hands. Singing it is hard enough. It's brilliant but I couldn't pick any other song. Ah fuck I've just put it on again and I'm having doubts now... Might go for She Is Suffering. Urgh, I dunno. Might be easier to say what it definitely absolutely isn't...
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Old 26-12-2011, 12:10
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She Is Suffering, by a country mile.
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Mausoleum........but that's still genius too
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